Pagan's Playground

 

Joseph Danoski

 

You've been straying

And playing on a pagan's playground,

Where the upside-down and the lost were found;

Amid the dawn in the aftermath of battle,

With sacrificial lambs and slaughtered cattle.

 

You've been living

And dying on damnation's playground,

Slowly rebuilding the burial mound;

Where your founding fathers did long ago falter,

Bowing down to idols on a black altar.

 

All the golden gateways to temptation,

All the pleasures lying naked waiting;

With unseen powers, and evil flowers

Sent by way of invitation.

 

Now your children

Congregate on the rocks for concerts,

With the gods they worship upon their shirts.

 

Getting down,

Rowdy and loud in their rebellion;

Because what goes around always comes around,

Dancing in Pandemonium on pagan's playground.

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      Joseph V. Danoski is a writer of letters and essays on diverse subjects, with strong opinions on many topics. A poet of horror, science fiction, and fantasy; he has been  published in journals and webzines both in the US and abroad. Various publications include Scavenger’s Newsletter, Pegasus, Red Owl, The Ultimate Unknown, Penny Dreadful, Pivot, Psychopoetica (UK), The Nocturnal Lyric, The Quest (India) The Aurorean, The Mentor & Masque Noir (Australia), Twilight Ending, Talvipaivanseisaus (Finland), The Romantics Quarterly, Hadrosaur Tales, Endemoniada, Northern Stars Magazine, Taj Mahal Review (India), The NeoVictorian, The Eclectic Muse (Canada), Frisson, Black Petals, Outer Darkness, Yellow Mama, Sanitarium Magazine, A Year of Sundays 2023, and The Horror Zine.

      Other activities include being a multi-instrumentalist, songwriting, and recording original music. Joseph currently resides in Berlin, New Hampshire. Dojonaki05@Gmail.Com